A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

The bigness of the West makes men quiet

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

Do something that scares you everyday.